150KTubs - future career in Virgin Radio and other soulful pursuits **Mod: Read OP**

RTE used to be a glamorous workplace? I don't ever remember that in my lifetime. I don't trust Terry Prone's articles.

She's probably saying that because of how she used to work there in the past since she was 13.

https://www.ul.ie/ceremonies/terry-prone-0

Follow the money first, then follow the ego. RTE was a glamorous wonderful place attracting the best talent back when she worked there.

This is the article if anybody wants to read it. It's not behind a paywall at the moment

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/spotlight/arid-41420929.html

I'm sure being such a vociferous reader and being back in Ireland for the weekend, tubridy will no doubt have his fill of the Sunday/weekend papers and will see that he is still the face of RTE shenanigans and it hasn't gone away, even a year on.

Or he could be just a vacuous shell who spent the weekend eating 99s from Teddys.

Interesting piece in Terry Prone's article for which she refers to 2fm inheriting a bunch of broadcasters who were not hired as such but rather social media practitioners. The loss of those type of presenters would result in 2fm's loss of 'their' audience. She is quite correct with that observation but it should also be remembered that according to the latest JNLR's, 2fm's audience share is abysmal to begin with. Even if the 2 Johnnies, Doireann Garrihy and so on were collectively pulling in that audience, the figures for the station would still be very sobering for any self respecting experienced PD. But yet they continue to pursue a model that is repeatedly failing them and for which one of our worlds greatest minds once described such behaviour as madness. And it does feel quite fitting in the case of Roger Daltrey calling out Kevin Backhurst towards the end of The Who's 1971 hit 'Wont Get Fooled Again'

A real man of the people is Tubs. Very down to earth.

If you weren't going to say it, I was. You always come through in the end.

you can get the internet on a mobile phone now. You don’t need to sit at home or even go to an internet cafe to read what’s happening 😉

I’m breaking my sides laughing at this!

Does Tubs enjoy Ceviche, raw fish with lime, popular in that region of South America, bit of a food Mecca, including nice teeth of an enlarged guinea pig digging into a cherry tomato on your plate, toenails almost tapping on the ceramic.

That was a stiletto on the end of jackhammer. RTE management won't be pleased. As for Prone, when the story first broke, she was the one who called him The Ryanstone Cowboy. She doesn't mince her words about Tubridy.

Regards…jmcc

The article is very good but you are right:-

I wrote the following based on the headline, but in fairness to Terry Prone she pulls no punches, I was surprised it came from her : -

The glamour at RTÉ faded as soon as they moved into the TV studios in Donnybrook. You can see from old archive photographs the original visual intent of the architect, a modern set of buildings purposefully built to house TV studios with a contemporary elegant entrance. The long corridors facing out on to Montrose house in the leafy Dublin suburbs. At some point however the sufficiency of the design was lost in the hands of RTÉ, as Wardrobe was dropped into a central area only to make it look messy. The same can be said of the Radio centre, who's lobby has had 1990s kitsch lobbed on to it with a lack of vision that the original minimalist lobby would suggest.

Buildings that would invite big name stars, while showing the opulence of our old British colonial past, had turned into a rat infested delipidated set of studios, which RTÉ never cared to maintain.

Surely this lack of maintenance of the RTÉ studios over the years should have shown the lack of management skills at the broadcaster.

RTÉ, the media and our politicians are now fed up with the news that RTÉ isn't up to the job of even running a broadcaster let alone their own buildings in which their studios reside. The audience on the other hand are embarrassed by the broadcaster.

Terry Prone might be right to consider RTÉ to be some kind of glamourous deity in the halcyon days of the 60s, but by the 70s and 80s it had dipped out of favour with audience, and cast a shadow on a bleak austere era, by the 90s nothing had changed and by the heady days of the Celtic Tiger management were now thinking they were working at the BBC, it was far from the BBC they were raised.

Let management and staff at RTÉ look around a crumbling broadcaster, and consider that they forget the glamour and put on a pair of wellies and get to work.

Mario Rosenstock really revelling in this! You get the feeling he had Tubs number from Day1 but couldn't open his mouth or lampoon him too heavily. Tubs held the keys to the late late show guest list and Irish entertainers need that promotional opportunity. Now yesterday's man, he's getting both barrels. 😂

Commercial stations tend to be pretty ruthless if a presenter isn't bringing the numbers in, even more so if the listenership is down on the previous presenter, so I'd imagine his contract would have a clear break clause in it.

Sampling some of the 2nd and 3rd hour. The theme based on first records bought and band names. The 11:18 am link made for pretty slick radio - Getting a lightbulb for a sowing machine.

Some redemption found at 11:28, a short introduction from Tubridy about the first record you may have bought - A link mostly engineered by the production team and a stark contrast to the usual mess.

At 11:33 Ryan comes back and does his own thing - McDonald's? Seagulls going bonkers? Then going to Bath? and then his voice just dramatically increased in pitch and intensity, the link then just exploded like the Death Star at the end of Star Wars. Even playing Shaboozey's 'A Bar Song' (Tipsy) in between could not make up for the chaotic presentation.

At 12:27 Coming out of 'Don't Stop Believin' led Ryan to announce "That was Journey" then angrily shouting JURNAY!! - possibly causing some listeners to experience a sudden jolt or possibly sending some into cardiac arrest whilst at the same time leading some to question the emotional health of the presenter.

12:58 To wrap up - Kicking walls in Dublin

Love Listening.